Assigstoe op one



(No Model.)

' W. H. PAIGB.

- SLEEPING GAR. N0. 288,361.

v Patentd Nov. 1 3, 1883.

N PUERS. Fhaxq-Lilhagnpher, washington. D. c.

NITED STATES PATENT OEE-Ien. i i

` PWILLIAM n. PAIGE, or SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, AssIeNon' or oNE- i IIALE To .DANIEL E. WARREN, on SAME PLACE.

#To all whom it may concern: l n

Be it known `that I, WILLIAM H. PAIGE, of

SLEEPING-om.

`SPEICIFICUiJJ:ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,361, dated November 13, 1883.

` `Application filed October 30, 18552."` Renewed September 24, 1883. (No model.)

Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State` of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in SleepingBerth l Apparatus for Railway-Gars, of which the fol'- lowingais a specification and description.

` The object of my invention lis `to provide a l railway-car having no permanent seats therein, with apparatus for suspeudingsleepingberths therein, which may be quickly set up l and beds made thereon, and the car converted verted in to a day-car, and I accomplish this intoa Sleepingcar, and which may beyas `quickly taken down and packed away, and

the car left with its floor unoccupied, to re ceive the portable chairs, and the carconby the means substantially as hereinafter dethe accompanying drawings, in whichwsection ofthe apparatus Set up,\upon which to suspend the beds.' of the upper end of one of the posts, showing the rail-bearings, and also the mechanism for securing and tightening the webs for support .ing the bedding. Fig. III is avertical section at line A of Fig. yII, showing the bearing of the tightening-roll in the post and the ratchetand-pawl mechanism for lholding the roll in :J the position intowhich it is turned. Fig. IV is a front view of the wall-bracket which sup` .ports the inner orwall end of the tighteningroll. .i Fig. Vis a horizontal section of the same at line C of Fig. IV. Fig.-VI is a ver- .tical transverse section of `the same at line D iof Fig. IV. Fig. VII is a longitudinal sectionI of the inner or wall end of the tightening-roll at its axis, and Fig. VIII is a side and end `view of lthe pawl which engages with the ratchet on the tightening-roll. i

My apparatus for supporting. the beds `for `Sleeping purposes, as hereinafter described,

.is to be used ina Vrailway-car constructed inl general as ordinary day-cars are constructed,

.. y but `without any permanent seats, so the whole of the door in the main saloon of thecar is unoccupied except when usedas `a day-car, in which case portable chairs, which may be of any desired construction to fold into a small Fig. II is an inside view] .compas's, may be brought in andIplaced upon the door without any particular; order or arrangement. sleeping-car, the chairs are to befolded and packed away in a small apartment at one end of the car for that purpose. l

In the drawings, Fin Fig. I"represents the .When the car is to be. used as a interior of the side wall of a railway-car havl ing my invention applied, into the floor of which, at the .proper distances apart and at the proper distance from the side wall, are fitted and secured a series of plates, 5, provided with a vertical hole, and beneath this plate is iirst made a cavity, 4.0, as shown in Fig. III. Y The uprights or posts for the apparatus con- A.sist `of a base, as 4, provided with a "curved toe, as, adapted to enter thehole through ,by which, when the post stands upright, it is thereby held firm in that position. The main body of the post may be in the forni of a tube,

"as 1, whose lower end is screwed into or otherwise secured in the base 4, and whose upper end is similarlysecured `in `a casting, as 7, at A. i

a suitable height to support the web for the lower bed or berth, as Shown inFigs. II and an opening above it, so that the end of a tubular or cylindrical rail, 2, may be dropped into the opening from above and rest upon. the upper side of this `iiange 3, asshown at the leftin Fig. II; and I use two of these rails in each section, one extending alongside the lower bed` or berth, with its ends resting in the lower castings?, of two adjacent posts, andthe ends of the other resting in the castings 7 of thesarne posts at the top. Iwo supporting-plates, as `16, each provided with two `buttons or `studs,as 22, are secured to the wall of the car inside each plate opposite each casting7 of the post, one above and the other below, and this plate has a hole throughit, as

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'17, which is'elongated vertically, and with an of a little less, diameter than the elongated hole in a vertical direction, as shown clearly a tubular form, with a ratchet-head, 12, firmly secured in the end of the tube by a pin, 13, or by other suitable means. The extreme outer end of this ratchet-head 12 is made cylindrical, and has its bearing inthe hole 11 in the outer side of the casting, and just inside this hole the head is a little larger in diameter, with a series of ratchet-teeth, as 10, cut thereon, and inside the teeth an annular groove, 9,

is made in the head, and inside this groove the head is enlarged again, to have a bearing and revolve in the hole 34 through the inner of the head, and with the flange 33 of the pawl projecting down into the annular groove 9 in the head. Each post is extended upward by atube, 1, screwed or secured in the top of the lower casting 7, and is similarly secured into the lower side ofthe upper casting 7, and the lupper and lower castings 7 kare made alike, as are also the ratchet-heads 12 of the upper and lower tightening-rolls, as well as the pawls, but with this exception-that to give the upper casting a little more finished appearance I make a hole in the top of the upper casting '7, through which extends a short rod, 19, whose lower end is pivoted at 31 in the pawl 20, and in the lower casting, instead of this rod 19, I make a slot, as 21, through the inner face ofthe casting, through which I turn a clamp-screw, 26, into a hole, 32, in the side of the pawl, both these arrangements being for the purpose of lifting the pawl from the outside to raise its ange 33 out of the annular groove 9 in the roller-head 12. A rectan gular-shaped h ole, 14, is made in the outer end of each rollerhead 12, into which a winch having its end `made to fit said hole is inserted by which to turn the roller to tighten or loosen it.

Small brackets, as 25, may be secured along the inside of the car at proper distances apart, and when the car is to be used as a day-car. oneof the rails Vmay be placed in the lower brackets, near the floor, and used to rest the feet upon, and the other may be placed in the upper brackets, 25, extending alon gj ust below the windows, and used as ahand-rail, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. I.'

When it is desired to take out the tightening-rolls 8, the ends are lifted out from the plates 16, and if the lower roll is being removed the screw 26 is raised in the slot 21 and turned in, which raises the flange 33 of the annular groove 9 in the head 12, and thehead 12 may then be withdrawn from the hole 34. 7c If the upper roll, 8, is being removed, the pawl may be raised by seizing the ball 29, secured to the upper end of the rod 19, and lifting the pawl to disengage its ange 33 from the groove 9, 'and the posts 1 are disengaged from the plates 5, secured in the floor, and packed away in, an apartment at the end of the car for that purpose.

In setting the apparatus up each post is put Y in place by holding it in aninclined position, inserting the curved end of the toe 6 through the hole in the plate 5 set in the floor, and then bringing the post into an upright position. The heads 12 of the upper andvlower tightening-rolls 8 are then inserted into their respective holes 34 in the-castings 7, and the pawls 2O are dropped into engagement with the ratchet-teeth, and with the ange 33 on each pawl engaging in its groove 9 on the head 12, which holds the head of the roll securely in place in the casting, yand the iiange 15 on the opposite end of each, roll 8, (which I prefer should be made on a casting secured in the end of the tubular roll,) is inserted into the upper part of the elongated. hole 17 lin the plate 16, and the ilange is then forced down into position behind the fiange 18 on the plate 16 and around the lower part of the elongated hole.

-One end of the webbing 24 may have abar, 42, secured thereto, which bar is secured to a link, as 41, on each sida-provided with an eye at the end, and one of these links on one'side of the web, at one end, is placed on the button or stud 22 on the casting 7, and the link on the other side is placed on the stud or button 22 on the plate 16, secured to the side of the oar, and the other end ofthe web is secured to the tightening-roll 8, extending from 'the next post, 1, to its plate on the side of the car, land the roll is turned to tighten the web to thedesired degree, and is there held bythe ratchet and pawl. l

A railway-car tted in this way is especially adapted to be used by parties traveling long distances, or for excursion parties, as the floor being unoccupied by permanent seats any portion may be used for any purpose desiredwa's for a piano or other instruments-and'if there are comparatively few in the party only a 'corresponding number of chairs need be brought, vand with plenty of room for other furniture, such as sofas or lounges; or little furniture may be used and more open space be left in which to move about. Y

It is evident that instead of the projection or flange, j as 33, to engage in the annular groove 9 in the ratchet-head, a pin may bevinserted ythrough the hollow casting, as showin in dotted lines in Fig. III, to secure the roll Yto the post. I

It is also obvious that instead of a stud or projection, as `22, and an eye, as 23, inthe link 41, and an eye to engage with the stud, asmall IOO IIO

shoulder or cavity may be made inthe casty ing similar to that shown atr 3, to support the rails 2, `and a' projection made onthe link to engage in said shoulder or cavity.

In the construction of some cars-as, for eX- ample,those designed for excursion purposes*- it maybe desirable to provide for 4only one tier of berths, in which case only a single tightening-roll and a sin gle web would be used, and for other purposes-as for cars for construetion purposes on a railway-three tiers of berths `:might be desired, `in which case each post would be supplied with three castings, as `7, and a corresponding numberof webs and tightening-rolls might beused,`

`Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isl. The combination of -a series oi' removable posts, each provided at its lower end with a` downwardly-proj ecting toe `or lug, and a series of socket-plates7 each provided with a cavity or aperture to receive said toe or lug, and secured to the ioor of `a railway-car, to furnish a bearing for the lower end of each post, substantially as described.

2. The combination of aseries of removable posts, each adapted to be temporarily firmly secured to the icor of a railway-car, and hollow casting secured in said posts ata suitable height to support the berth-webbing, and each provided with a web-fastening, a bracket provided with a web-fastening secured to the wall of the car oppositeieach said casting, a tightening-roll lianged at one end, to be secured and revolve in said bracket, and a ratchetother end and adapted to be secured and reessci s f volve in said casting, anda pawl pivoted in each casting to engage with the teeth of said ratchet-head and with a fastening to engage in said annular grooveto hold the roll in its place, substantially as described.` f

3. In an apparatus for suspending the beds or couches in a railway-car, the combination of a tubular post having `a hollow casting secured thereto-at a suitable height ,tc suspend the bed, said casting being provided with a fastening from which to suspend one side of i the web, and adapted on opposite sides to -re` y from when it is desired to removethe roll from its bearing in the casting, substantially as described.

VVILLIAM H. PAIGE.

Wfitnesses:

' T; A. OURTis,

CHAs. H. Woon.

y 35 head provided with an annular groove at the y 

